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Foo Fighters are certainly whetting fans’ appetite for their new album, Concrete And Gold, with the preview of a new song. ‘Dirty Water’ made its live debut at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on Monday night (July 3).

Introducing the track, frontman Dave Grohl said to the crowd: “So this is where I stop looking at the setlist and we just start playing songs that we want to play.  This is a song that we’ve been waiting to play for everybody – nobody’s heard this song yet but we like it and every night before we come onstage, we sit backstage and we play it just because it’s kinda nice.”

It’s deceptive number, to be sure. It starts off as a jangly, almost jaunty, song with a chorus that’s vaguely redolent of Lee Ranaldo’s ‘Off The Wall’ before exploding into the huge wall of noise that seems to be characterising their forthcoming ninth album, which is set for release on September 15. Have a listen to it here:

It’s definitely fitting in with the way that Dave Grohl has been talking about the new album. Speaking of the new album last month, he said in a statement: "I wanted it to be the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record ever. To make a gigantic rock record but with [producer] Greg Kurstin's sense of melody and arrangement... Motorhead's version of Sgt. Pepper... or something like that.”

He added that Concrete And Gold will feature “some of the most insanely heavy Foo Fighters riffs ever with lush harmonic complexities.” Judging by this track, he’s not far off the mark.

As previously reported on Gigwise, Foo Fighters return to the UK to play the O2 Arena on September 19.

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